The Most Unemployed Big Countries In The World

Citi recently published its 80-page Global Economic Outlook and Strategy report, which provides up-to-date commentary and forecasts for the major economies covered by the bank's army of economists.

Things are still looking pretty stagnant worldwide, and rough for Europe. From Chief Economist Willem Buiter:

We make only modest changes to our growth forecasts this month, and expect global growth of 2.5% in 2012 and 2.8% in 2013 at current exchange rates (versus 2.6% and 2.7% respectively last month). Our forecast remains well below those of the consensus and IMF, reflecting in particular a much weaker outlook for the euro area and a modestly weaker outlook for many emerging markets.

In the wake of today's U.S. jobs number, here's a reminder that we could be doing a lot worse. We've rounded up the numbers and analysis from Buiter's team on the economies they cover that have unemployment rates higher than the U.S.'s 8.3 percent.